Boot or shoe



(No Model.) 3 SheetsSheet 1 W. H. ALLEN, Jr. & A. N. MAKEPEAOE. BOOT 0 SHOE.

No. 414,360. Patented Nov. 5, 1889. T

No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2. W. H. ALLEN. Jr. 85 A. N. MAKEPEAOE.

BOOT 0R SHOE.

Patented Nov. 5, 1889.

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No. 414,360. Patented Nov. 5, 1889.

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WILLIAM H. ALLEN, JR, AND AUGUSTUS N. MAKEPEACE, OF \VEST EROOK- FIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT OR SHGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,360, dated November 5, 1889.

Application filed June 10, 1889.

T aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. ALLEN, Jr, and AUGUSTUS N. MAKEPEACE, both of Vest Brookfield, in the county of lVorcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boots or Shoes; and we dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

the letters of reference marked thereon, formin g a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a plan view of a piece of upper-leather out in the form to make a I5 boot or shoe according to our present invention, as will be hereinafter more fully described. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the blank A, Fig. 1, after it has been pressed or crimped into the form shown in Fig. 2.

2o 3 represents a top View of the crilnped form shown in Fig. 2 when the part E is turned up. Fig. 1 represents a rear view of the crimped form shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents a side view of the crimped form after the rear 2 5 end has been closed and the upper or top out to form a shoe-upper, as will be hereinafter described. Fig. 6 represents a side view of the crimped forin shown in Fig. 3 after the rear end has been closed and the top out to form the upper for a boot, as will be hereinafter more fully described. Fig. 7 represents a rear view of the form after it has been made into a boot, the upper part of the boot leg being broken away. Fig. 8 represents a 3 5 side View of the parts shown in Fig. 7 as will be hereinafter described. Fig. 9 represents a top or plan view of a shoe made from the blank form. Fig. 10 represents a side view of the shoe shown in Fig. 9; and Fig. 11 represents a rear view of the shoe, as will be hereinafter described.

To enable those skilled in the art to which our invention belongs to make and use the same, we will now describe the invention more in detail.

Our present invention is an improvement on the invention patented by William H. Allen, J r., and Timothy Balcom, April 19, 1887, No. 361,478, said Balconi and Allen inventors,

but which patent has been assigned to us.

Serial No. 313,801. (No model.)

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As manufacturers of boots and shoes, we experienced some practical-difficulties in cirtain classes of stock in following out said invention patented on April 19, 1887. If the heel part of the blank for the upper were cut from a comparatively loose or spongy piece of leather, the lower part of the heel and shank of the upper were liable to wrinkle, unless the blank was out small and then stretched with great force, in which case there was danger of breaking the upper 'heel partof the leather before the lower part was stretched to such an extent as to prevent wrinkling. After much study and invention we are now able to produce boot or shoe uppers 6 5 from a single piece of leather, and that, too, in a manner which entirely overcomes the 0bjections above stated, while at the same time a considerable saving of leather is made over the Allen and Balcoin plan, which, in the main, is retained. The blank A is out in form shown in Fig. 1. The heel part is cut in, as seen at B. The line of the rear part of the blank is indicated by letters a, b, and c, and the toe part of the next blank is cut from the incut B, which in itself is quite a saving. The blank upper thus cut is pressed into form by the Balcoin and Allen machine patented May 10, 1887, and which form C is shown in Fig. 2.

Figs. 3 and 4: represent top and rear views of the pressed form, the top E being whole from b to the toe part D, while the rear edges from a to b and c to Z) are brought together by the pressing and forming operation, as seen in Fig. 4, and in position to be closed or stitched together, as shown at F, Figs. 5 and 6, and which operation is generally performed be fore the upper O is turned to bring the face of the seam F on the outside. If the blank is to be made into a shoe, a piece E is out out of the upper part E and a cut dinade on each side to permit the part E to turn up to cover the instep after the shoe is placed on the foot, (see Figs. 9, 10, and 11, which show the shoe coniplete,) the upper A being formed from the blank A, Fig. 1. The rear searnF F does not extend to the top of the shoe-upper, since a narrow strip of leather D extends from side 60 side. I00

O O are the lining parts stitched together at a and to the leather upper A at h, the upper being provided with a heel H and sole H. It will be seen that the Whole part D at the heel protects the seam and prevents it from ripping or starting at the upper end of the seam. If the blank A O is to be made into a boot, cuts f and e are made in the upper or top part E, Fig. 3, and a small piece g on each side cutout, as indicated in full and dotted lines, Fig. 6. The rear part G is turned up and stitched to the back of leg J of boot I,

While the front part G is turned up and stitched to the front of the boot-leg, as indicated in Fig. 8, and which bootleg J has a side seam J and is stitched to the boot-upper K by a seam h. Boot K is provided WithaheelL and sole L. I

Having described our improvements in boots or shoes, What we claim as new and of our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described boot or shoe upper formed of the blank A, having the angular cut-out portion B, as shown, crimped into shape, and the edges a, b, and c united by a seam, leaving the integral uncut portion in the rear, and with cuts in the upper part, substantially as shown, to form a foot-opening.

WILLIAM H. ALLEN, JR. AUGUSTUS N. MAKEPEACE.

Witnesses:

THos. H. DODGE, A LEVI R. PRENTISS. 

